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12/19/2015

Consider “The Soft Power of Militant Jihad”

Filed under: General — Dana @ 10:08 am



[guest post by Dana]

That is the current title of an opinion piece in the NYT, which 24 hours ago was titled Militant Jihad’s Softer Side. Thomas Hegghammer, who is the director of terrorism research at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, examines the lifestyle of the modern jihadist and what draws so many recruits to the ranks of ISIS:

Why have tens of thousands of people from around the world chosen to live under the Islamic State’s draconian rule and fight under its black flag? To understand this phenomenon, we must recognize that the world of radical Islam is not just death and destruction. It also encompasses fashion, music, poetry, dream interpretation. In short, jihadism offers its adherents a rich cultural universe in which they can immerse themselves.

When jihadis aren’t fighting — which is most of the time — they enjoy storytelling and watching films, cooking and swimming. The social atmosphere (at least for those who play by the rules) is egalitarian, affectionate and even playful. Jihadi life is emotionally intense, filled with the thrill of combat, the sorrow of loss, the joy of camaraderie and the elation of religious experience. I suspect this is a key source of its attraction.

Jihadi culture also comes with its own sartorial styles. In Europe, radicals sometimes wear a combination of sneakers, a Middle Eastern or Pakistani gown and a combat jacket on top. It’s a style that perhaps reflects their urban roots, Muslim identity and militant sympathies. The men often follow Salafi etiquette, for example by carrying a tooth-cleaning twig known as a miswak, wearing nonalcoholic perfume, and avoiding gold jewelry, as they believe the Prophet Muhammad did.

As new recruits shed their jeans and track suits for robes, as they memorize the words to the Islamic State’s anashid and learn to look for glimpses of paradise in dreams, they discover a whole new lifestyle. Music, rituals and customs may be as important to jihadi recruitment as theological treatises and political arguments. Yes, some people join radical groups because they want to escape personal problems, avenge Western foreign policy or obey a radical doctrine. But some recruits may join because they find a cultural community and a new life that is emotionally rewarding.

The comments are about what you would expect: these disenfranchised young people hate because of the West and we must do something! vs. we need to wipe them off the face of the earth. (Of course, there is no tally included for how many of these “disenfranchised” young people who blame the West, actually came from the relative comfort of the West…)

Oh, and Nazis. The current top Readers’ Pick comment:

Yes, and the Nazis were fond of classical music. Which didn’t change the fact that they were Nazis.

The current top NYT’s Pick comment:

Aside from whether Nazis were actually fond of classical music (many of the party’s blue collar recruits, I suspect, were more into beer hall polka,) this is a nonsensical response to the article.

Young Germans didn’t join the Nazi Party because of “classical music.” However, the sharp uniforms, the images of strength, and the propaganda of greatness and destiny, all contributed to the Nazi Party’s appeal. To understand those things is helps us to understand how the Nazi Party came to power. Understanding how the Nazi Party rose to power is one prerequisite to stopping it from happening again under a different name.

ISIS is neither the first nor the only Jihadist group. It will probably not be the last. For the same reason explained above, unless you are interested in being on a Jihadism Merry-Go-Round for decades, it is important to learn how these groups recruit and grow.

But in spite of the analyzing and opining, it’s really too bad these Yazidi girls just weren’t fortunate enough to get to know that softer side of militant jihad…

–Dana

62 Responses to “Consider “The Soft Power of Militant Jihad””

  1. Hello.

    Dana (86e864)

  2. Jihad organizations offer structure and rules, which is something children need and modern society doesn’t offer.

    DRJ (15874d)

  3. When jihadis aren’t fighting — which is most of the time — they enjoy…

    …,when in Sweden, gang raping the local blond women, when in Somalia, mutilating the genitals of girls by giving them clitorectomies with shards of broken glass, and wherever in the world they can marry a child bride like Muhammad married 9 y.o. Aisha* widening their new conquest’s vagina with a hunting knife because what they’re doing is unnatural.

    Yeah, the jihadi lifestyle. It’s playful, even affectionate.

    *Actually Muhammad married her when she was six. But, gentleman and fine moral example that he was, he restrained himself until she was 9 to consummate the marriage.

    Surah 33:21 Al-Ahzab (The Combined Forces)

    There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  4. we should shoot them with guns i think

    happyfeet (831175)

  5. The Islamic jihad offers structure, rules, and purpose that has been removed through establishment of the quasi-religious pro-choice doctrine that serves to denigrate dignity and debase life in liberal societies. Perhaps if Muslims conducted their abortion and cannibalistic rites in private, along with trillions of dollars in redistributive change, then they too would be perceived as decent people with good intentions.

    Then again, the first rule of left-wing ideology is that there can be only one.

    The Caliphate-oriented Muslims are simultaneously allies of convenience and competitors to established monopolies. First, they came for the national Muslims…

    n.n (07b8f4)

  6. I didn’t mean to be sexist. In Darfur the janjaweed militiamen used to enjoy raping young boys to the ululations of the women, as well. And as we well know, or should know, Afghan men like their “dancing boys” too. Unfortunately if you get irritated by the screams of young boys keeping you awake all night, and then so much as touch an Afghan police commander when he just smirks at you when you tell him to cut that s*** out, Barack Hussein Obama will kick you out of his Army.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205551/Decorated-Green-Beret-kicked-U-S-Special-Forces-shoving-Afghan-police-officer-raped-boy-12-beat-mother-reported-crime.html

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  7. that’s disgraceful of the US army

    you would like to think they had more class

    happyfeet (831175)

  8. This article illustrates why these young people turn on the West: Our official culture is one of self-loathing and self-criticism, where we romanticize and humanize the enemy–if we even admit we have an enemy. We despise religion; we can say (f**k) but not Merry Christmas in polite company. We see it every day on Page 1 of the NYT.

    The young Muslims have taken us at our multiculti word and joined a culture that believes in its own power.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  9. Patricia, as many have noted, “Why do they hate us” is not the right question to ask. The real question is, “Why do they have contempt for us?”

    All you have to do is watch a clip of Barack Obama talking about how attending a climate change conference in Paris is an appropriate rebuke to ISIS. Or the weepy candlelight vigil after the next attack.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6AyGBXihJ0

    CNN: ISIS will laugh at Obama’s oval office speech

    Frankly I’m pretty disgusted with us. We elected this cheesed*** twice (not me, and I’m sure not you, but our neighbors did). I can see why the Muslims think we’re ripe for the taking.

    And note I say Muslims, not Islamists or Islamic extremists or whatever. Because this has been going on for 1400 years. There really is no lenient or tolerant version of Islam. Other than the Ahmadiyya version, and they’ve been excommunicated from the Ummah in almost all Muslim majority countries as un-Islamic. Prom Queen is right about one thing, but as is typical of the fool in exactly the wrong way. Islam has been part of this nation’s history since our founding. As a threat. We built our first naval vessels after the Revolutionary War to fight the Barbary Coast pirates. We didn’t use them against the pirates first as the government preferred to pay the jizya instead as they thought it would be cheaper. So first we used them in the quasi-war with France. But it was false economy. We quickly learned that there was no way to put fighting the Muslims off. So we sent our ships into the Med to kick some Islamic tail. That shut them up.

    But for some reason our elites can’t understand what any five year old can understand. Violent jihad has very much to do with Islam. It is a religious obligation.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  10. To understand this phenomenon, we must recognize that the world of radical Islam is not just death and destruction. It also encompasses fashion, music, poetry, dream interpretation. In short, jihadism offers its adherents a rich cultural universe in which they can immerse themselves.

    Vomit!

    felipe (56556d)

  11. Right, Steve, but one liberal I know even blames the Barbary Wars on us.

    Patricia (5fc097)

  12. To understand this phenomenon, we must recognize that the world of radical Islam is not just death and destruction. It also encompasses fashion, music, poetry, dream interpretation. In short, jihadism offers its adherents a rich cultural universe in which they can immerse themselves.

    how is this different from pokemon?

    hint: it’s not

    grow the eff up, losers

    happyfeet (831175)

  13. Greetings:

    Especially the pre-10 year old Yahzidi girls. ISIS does as Mohammed did, no ???

    11B40 (69b9c8)

  14. Patricia @10, you can’t fix stupid. The war with Tripoli was our fault, huh? The US must be capable of some wicked evil sorcery, since we made the Muslims commit acts of piracy and slavery along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe for a thousand years before we even existed.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  15. Jihad organizations offer structure and rules, which is something children need and modern society doesn’t offer.

    The Boys and Girls Clubs offer structure. Families offer structure. Jihad organizations provide far more than that: structure with a cause . And one that its adherents hold as right and just with spectacular promises in the afterlife. Something is already embedded in these young men before they join up that leads them to that particular group. And that something is Islam, or a version thereof. Average lost boys don’t jump to torture and murder and rape and pillage. Jihad groups offer an acceptable outlet for abhorrent deviant rage, and worse. In fact, it mandates it.

    Dana (86e864)

  16. legos offer structure

    happyfeet (831175)

  17. luke bryan does not offer structure though cause he’s dumber than poop

    he really really really needs to repeat a few grades before they let him record again

    happyfeet (831175)

  18. 12. Greetings:

    Especially the pre-10 year old Yahzidi girls. ISIS does as Mohammed did, no ???

    11B40 (69b9c8) — 12/19/2015 @ 1:50 pm

    All devout Muslims have to do as Muhammad did. They have no choice in the matter.

    4:64 An-Nisa (The Women)

    And We did not send any messenger except to be obeyed by permission of Allah . And if, when they wronged themselves, they had come to you, [O Muhammad], and asked forgiveness of Allah and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

    33:36 Al-Ahzab (The Combined Forces)

    It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly strayed into clear error.

    Muhammad said it was lawful to contract for Nikah al-Mut’ah, or “temporary marriage.” A man can pay a woman to “marry” him for a few hours, a few days, even a few months depending on how much he offers and the woman agrees to accept. In other words, Muhammad gave his blessing to prostitution.

    The Sunnis claim that Muhammad later changed his mind and forbade the practice (the Shia say he never did). But they don’t have any evidence of that. In fact, if anyone did was the second “rightly guided” Umar who did.

    Sahih Muslim 3250—Abu Nadra reported: While I was in the company of Jabir b. Abdullah, a person came to him and said that Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn Zubair differed on the two types of Mut’a (Tamattu’ of Hajj 1846 and Tamattu’ with women), whereupon Jabir said: We used to do these two during the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger. Umar then forbade us to do them, and so we did not revert to them.

    So any Sunni who wants to practice Mut’ah can find ample justification to do so, since no Muslim not even the Caliph can overrule anything Muhammad and Allah have decided. And the Shia don’t even have to try to justify themselves.

    What that means is rich Arabs go on sex tours of the Syrian refugee camps were mothers are turning out their daughters just to put food on the table. So while the “brave holy warriors” are raping little Yazidi girls, back on the home front some Saudi prince is diddling a jihadi’s own little girl.

    These guys used to go to Indonesia for “temporary marriages” (one or two marriages a day sometimes) but it’s a lot more convenient and much, much cheaper to cross the border into Jordan where they can get laid for the price of a loaf of bread in the camps.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  19. Muhammad makes my taco pop!

    and i’m only six years old!

    happyfeet (831175)

  20. That’s a valid point regarding Muslim youth, Dana, but how do you explain non-Muslims who decide to convert and join? What in their backgrounds makes this appealing to them?

    DRJ (15874d)

  21. In addition, I’m not sure I agree there’s much structure left in American families and institutions. And tolerance, diversity, and “Anything goes” seem to be the only rules.

    DRJ (15874d)

  22. People learn self-discipline from having it imposed on them. That’s why the military is so successful at turning out hard workers who set goals and accomplish things. In general, American families and schools don’t believe in imposing discipline and authority on their kids.

    DRJ (15874d)

  23. what are you even talking about

    happyfeet (831175)

  24. what most bestest imposes discipline and authority on the american peoples is aspiration

    we’re not asians

    happyfeet (831175)

  25. Just came from a hog roast. Had a sandwich of tenderloin, portion of the ham area, cheeks and pork belly.
    So insanely delicious I had two.
    Whole hog is porkalicous.

    mg (31009b)

  26. hogs is hoggylicious yes yes yes

    who here told me about the cheese cave btw?

    i did a three-monther for my aunt for xmas

    happyfeet (831175)

  27. was it gary?

    happyfeet (831175)

  28. You mean this, happyfeet?
    This place is great.
    http://www.faribaultdairy.com/

    mg (31009b)

  29. oh it was you yes yes yes

    here’s the store

    which is a place my aunt and uncle would pass through on the way to my lil brudder’s hoose

    so it was perfect

    happyfeet (831175)

  30. oh crap i effed up

    i got this new jersey crap

    happyfeet (831175)

  31. yeah those jersey trash cheese-mongers already dinged my amex

    but i’m a make this right

    happyfeet (831175)

  32. 14. Something is already embedded in these young men before they join up that leads them to that particular group. And that something is Islam, or a version thereof. Average lost boys don’t jump to torture and murder and rape and pillage. Jihad groups offer an acceptable outlet for abhorrent deviant rage, and worse. In fact, it mandates it.

    Dana (86e864) — 12/19/2015 @ 2:22 pm

    During his Meccan period Muhammad had to rely solely on preaching to try and get followers. That didn’t work out too well. He only had a couple of dozen converts. He was also extremely obnoxious to the pagans of Mecca, so when they got fed up with him he was forced to flee to Yathrib, now Medina, because he didn’t have enough people to back him up in a fight. Yathrib was divided into quarreling factions unlike Mecca, which was united in it’s hate for Muhammad. So he was able to gain some influence there. Once he acquired enough political influence he changed his message. No more live and let live (all of the peagain ceful verses in the Quran are from the Meccan period). Now it the message was that if you followed Muhammad to fight the “unbelievers” you’d get rich on war booty and could have as many sex slaves as you could capture. If you lived. If you got killed you’d go to a paradise that would be like the red light district in Bangkok dialed up to eleventy and it’s all free.

    That’s when he really started getting a lot of followers.

    Rape and pillage. It’s been the key to recruiting Muslims since the birth of Islam.

    There are a couple of points to keep in mind, though. It isn’t enough to simply be a Muslim to become a jihadi these days. You have to know about the demands Islam places on its adherents, as well as about the rewards it offers in return. That wasn’t a problem in Muhammad’s day as he wouldn’t shut up about it. But these days you have to wade through a lot of dull, difficult to read books and most Muslims, especially in the West, can’t be bothered. Then in addition to knowledge you have to have commitment. Most Muslims, like most Christians, are just nominally so. They go through the motions. And then even if they somehow learn what their religion actually demands, they just don’t want to do it.

    Sort of like Skynet, they have to become self-aware before they become weaponized.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  33. ok to be real honest the MN cavers don’t really offer baskets like you would think but this one looks like it’ll do the trick

    happyfeet (831175)

  34. ok they have a real genuine MN caver basket on the way

    happyfeet (831175)

  35. It will be just fine, happyfeet.
    I grew up on Amablue.

    mg (31009b)

  36. i’m a have to make a point to get some for myself

    happyfeet (831175)

  37. hyper-entitled former drug-dealing jebfilth books time on CNN for to clarify to the failmerican people that he’s the TRUE ree-ree candidate

    happyfeet (831175)

  38. lumpy rutherford after slim-fast.

    mg (31009b)

  39. Can you imagine a muslim going to confession?
    Bless me mo-ham-head for I have sinned……

    mg (31009b)

  40. Were you a Montessori kid, happyfeet?

    DRJ (15874d)

  41. That’s a valid point regarding Muslim youth, Dana, but how do you explain non-Muslims who decide to convert and join?

    This is from an ISIS recruiter who explains how they targeted non-Muslim young people and what they looked for:

    “There were certain things we looked for,” Shaikh said, speaking of his time as a recruiter. “People who didn’t know the religion as much. People who were converts, because converts would probably have problems with their parents at home, so they were more likely to stay in our company.”

    Most Western recruits are teenagers and almost all going to Syria to fight are men. “The vast majority of Westerners joining up with ISIS are extraordinarily ignorant when it comes to religion,” said Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University professor who studies jihadist groups.

    Further,

    The mentor-recruit relationship often begins through religious seminars, community activities or classes that might look normal to the average Westerner, Soharwardy said. Of the five known foreign fighters in Syria from Calgary, Alberta, three attended the same mosque, Soharwardy said.

    ISIS is also likely recruiting in colleges and high schools under the cover of student groups, Soharwardy said.

    Perhaps that begins in our high schools and universities as they do the old the West is horrible routine and go from there.

    I also think given how easily the young people romanticize just about anything or anyone – no matter how awful the person may have been or how representative of a totalitarian state the thing may be – ISIS is easily romanticized: underdogs forced by the evil West to push back, guided by their Islamic dogma which tells them the infidels must be killed and having to survive an onslaught of hatred by capitalist pigs and power mongers who have ravaged their homeland, etc. etc.

    Dana (86e864)

  42. nonono but i went to a really good pre-school

    i was the best rester!

    happyfeet (831175)

  43. i was the best rester!
    standing O, happyfeet.
    lmao

    mg (31009b)

  44. Why did young Americans run off to France to join the Lafayette Escadrille (before Wilson had entered the war)? Why did Lafayette join the American Revolution, for that matter? Why did my grandfather leave Chicago to enlist in the Greek army in 1912? Why did Hillary Clinton climb Mt. Everest? It is not sufficient for people to have the means by which to live; they also need a reason for which to live.

    nk (dbc370)

  45. That seems to support my point, Dana. People want structure and values, and they will look for them elsewhere if the society/family don’t provide them.

    DRJ (15874d)

  46. 20. In addition, I’m not sure I agree there’s much structure left in American families and institutions. And tolerance, diversity, and “Anything goes” seem to be the only rules.

    DRJ (15874d) — 12/19/2015 @ 2:59 pm

    There’s a reason for that, DRJ. It hasn’t escaped the notice of leftists that children from intact families with a mother and a have far better economic outcomes than children raised by single mothers.

    Leftist responded to this knowledge about as calmly as rationally as you would expect these rabid, drooling SJWs who go crazy at any sort of inequality. Especially economic inequality.

    The decided the intact, loving family where children live with their biological parents must be destroyed because it is unfair to children who grow up without such advantages.

    I wish I were joking.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/new-family-values/6437058

    Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?

    …‘One way philosophers might think about solving the social justice problem would be by simply abolishing the family. If the family is this source of unfairness in society then it looks plausible to think that if we abolished the family there would be a more level playing field.’

    I don’t want to misstate Swift’s argument. He isn’t advocating that the government should simply abolish the family and seize everyone’s kids. But there are other Leftists who are thinking along those lines. That’s one reason why they are redefining marriage and family so that any combination of anything can be labelled a family. When marriage, and family, can mean anything it means nothing.

    As Swedish (maybe Norwegian, I get those scandi countries mixed up sometimes, as if it matters much) sociologist wrote 20 years ago in her op-ed “Empty Marriage”the goal is to destroy family emptying it of all meaning.

    In fact, it’s precisely because other leftists want to abolish the family (scratch a leftist and a totalitarian bleeds) that Swift is trying to come up with philosophical defense of the family. Which is bizarre in its own right.

    Swift is slightly less totalitarian in his approach. Slightly. The lower orders will be allowed to bitterly cling to their family structures. But only under strict government supervision and control.

    It seems that from both the child’s and adult’s point of view there is something to be said about living in a family way. This doesn’t exactly parry the criticism that families exacerbate social inequality. For this, Swift and Brighouse needed to sort out those activities that contribute to unnecessary inequality from those that don’t.

    ‘What we realised we needed was a way of thinking about what it was we wanted to allow parents to do for their children, and what it was that we didn’t need to allow parents to do for their children, if allowing those activities would create unfairnesses for other people’s children’.

    …Swift makes it clear that although both elite schooling and bedtime stories might both skew the family game, restricting the former would not interfere with the creation of the special loving bond that families give rise to. Taking the books away is another story.

    ‘We could prevent elite private schooling without any real hit to healthy family relationships, whereas if we say that you can’t read bedtime stories to your kids because it’s not fair that some kids get them and others don’t, then that would be too big a hit at the core of family life.’

    So should parents snuggling up for one last story before lights out be even a little concerned about the advantage they might be conferring?

    ‘I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they should have that thought occasionally,’ quips Swift…

    You might be surprised at how far this thinking has spread. Earlier this year Tiger Beat spoke at a breakfast gathering of Baptists and Catholics. He chastised those in the audience who send their children to private schools because by removing them from the “public square” they were unfairly disadvantaging other children.

    The hypocrite in chief loves to wag his finger at other people for daring to think they can make better decisions about how to raise their children than the experts in government. You know, such experts as those at the EPA who sent so much toxic mine waste into a river they poisoned the water supply for a couple of states downstream as well as for the Navajo nation.

    But it’s fine for Prom Queen to send his daughters to Sidwell Friends, the most exclusive private school in DC. Some pigs are more equal than others.

    But make no mistake. The left would eliminate the private sphere entirely, abolish the family, and declare eminent domain over your children if they thought they could get away with it. That’s the only thing stopping them at the moment; they don’t think they have the power yet. But they’re working on it.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  47. It has a child-directed curriculum, hf.

    DRJ (15874d)

  48. I think Chesterton said that a person who believes in nothing will fall for anything.
    Nature abhors a vacuum, as nk said, human beings were created to live with purpose, if we aren’t grounded in truth, we take in a lie.
    If we take in a little lie, soon we are not satisfied with it, and have to buy into a bigger lie.

    MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84)

  49. I lean toward the romanticization of Jihadi fighters by ISIS. Certainly we know that Western non-Muslim girls who go as brides are seduced inthis way. Why not the young men, too?

    Dana (c64dd7)

  50. this one time i got to feed the guinea pig

    happyfeet (831175)

  51. DRJ,

    I se a difference between “structure” and the need to belong.

    Dana (c64dd7)

  52. romanticization is definitely a part of it,
    but it is romanticization of having a purpose

    MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84)

  53. Should be: I lean toward the romanticization of Jihadi fighters by non-Muslim young men…

    Dana (c64dd7)

  54. Structure leads to self-discipline, which can lead to self-esteem. Belonging is another way of looking for self-esteem but it depends on others to fulfill one’s needs.

    DRJ (15874d)

  55. The romance of war seldom survives contact with the enemy. It is as many of you have said — a desire to belong to and to serve something or someone bigger than oneself. God trumps just about everything, and it is only atheists who find religion joyless.

    nk (dbc370)

  56. Atheists have a religion; atheism. It’s a godless religion, which is why it’s joyless as you point out, nk.

    Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27)

  57. You’re all missing one very important element about why both Muslim and non-Muslim westerners are attracted to ISIS. Islam promises its adherents power over all others. Recall how OBL said that when people see a strong horse and weak horse, they are naturally attracted to the strong horse.

    When you read the Quran it’s striking how obsessed it is with status, power and dominance. Who dominates and who must be humiliated if they are allowed to live at all. Even when the Quran talks about Jesus, who is only a prophet in Islam, this comes through.

    3:55 Ali ‘Imran (Family of Imran)

    [Mention] when Allah said, “O Jesus, indeed I will take you and raise you to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve and make those who follow you [in submission to Allah alone] superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is your return, and I will judge between you concerning that in which you used to differ.

    The only relationship anyone can have in with Allah is the same as a slave to master relationship. But Islam promises Muslims that they will have a master/slave relationship to everyone else, on earth and in paradise. In paradise the Muslim men won’t just have their own wives and at least 72 houris. It’s a little known fact but non-Muslims will enter paradise. But only the Jewish and Christian women, who will be the sex slaves of the Muslim men for all eternity.

    (Muslimas have sort of a half-slave relationship to their masters, at first their fathers and brothers and then their husbands, who can beat them and who can “plow” them any time the like any way they like, as the Quran says the way a farmer plows a field he owns, but Muslimas are superior to non-Muslims.)

    And on Earth…

    9:29 At-Tawbah (The Repentance)

    Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

    In Muslim majority countries there is never any question of equality between people of different religions. There simply isn’t any. Muslims lord over non-Muslims. That’s why, for instance, Asia Bibi is on death row in Pakistan. She was picking fruit and she dared drink from the same metal cup that the other women, all Muslim, drank from. How dare she put her filthy kuffar lips on a cup used by Muslims! Asia Bibi tried to defend her actions, and that was simply an outrage. She needed to be put in her place, so the other women denounced her saying she had insulted Islam and the prophet. Against Muslim witnesses she had no chance in court.

    The Quran and the Sunnah when taken together teach that it isn’t enough that Christians and Jews (and anyone else if the term “people of the book” can be stretched far enough) must pay a heavy tax to the Muslims in order for their presence in a Muslim to be tolerated. Muslims must make their lives miserable. That’s why in the above Surah it says that “those who were given the scripture”(i.e. Jews and Christians) must not only pay the jizya but they must be humiliated. All the schools of Sharia teach that the kuffar must publicly grovel while paying the tax. They go into great detail, down to the fact that the infidel can never place his hand over the Muslim tax collectors hand. While bowing before the Muslim, the infidel holds his hand open so the Muslim can reach down and take the money from above.

    It’s why when there is enough of a Muslim population they establish sharia zones, or no go areas, in European cities. Groups of Muslim thugs enforce sharia in the sharia zones, telling non-Muslims that they have to pour out their beers for instance as they can’t drink alcohol in front of a Muslim. And the kuffar simply can’t enter a no go zone. Not even the police or ambulance services. In places like Malmo in Sweden even if the EMTs are there to help an injured or ill Muslim they will be harassed and intimidated, even when they have a police escort (most EMTs refuse to go unless they do). The kuffar must know who is the master in this relationship.

    In fact, Bibi Netanyahu summed it up rather well.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/netanyahu-we-ve-seen-theres-master-race-now-theres-master-faith

    “There’s a master race; now there’s a master faith. And that allows you to do anything to anyone, but first of all to your own people and then to everyone else…”

    He’s a little off on the “first of all to your own people” part. Strict Muslims like the Salafists and Wahhabists don’t consider anyone who identifies themselves as Muslim but then don’t live in total compliance with Sharia to be their own people. They’re apostates, heretics, hypocrites; in other words not Muslim. But then he’s the leader of a country with a large minority of Muslims, some of whom volunteer for service in the IDF, so he has to be cautious with his words.

    But this kind of power over others, the ability to do anything to anyone, is very appealing to a lot of people. Both Muslim and non-Muslim. This is why Islam gets so many converts in prison. Many women are attracted to the bad boy type. Muslims living in the ghettoized suburbs around major cities in France feel larger society has contempt for them, but they have even more contempt for larger society. Those women are all whores, the men are timid and weak, and pols talk about French values but when push comes to shove they back down and won’t enforce those words. That’s part of the appeal of Islam to women, both Muslim and non-Muslim. They see the gang leaders of the banlieues in France bragging about what they do when they’re out on their frequent crime sprees, taking what they want and no one dare stop them. Then they see the French police afraid to even patrol in their part of town. Is it any wonder they prefer the strong horse.

    And in Islam right now ISIS is the strongest horse of all. It’s not war they romanticize, it’s the power.

    Steve57 (50e6a1)

  58. clearly, steve, you haven’t considered the rage inducing effect here:

    https://twitter.com/ExposeThePump/status/678439670745858048/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    narciso (732bc0)

  59. Recently had a discussion in one of my exercise clubs with a nice enough 30 year old ‘originally’ from Minneapolis nonetheless evincing a possibly Nigerian accent who expressed a distinct lack of concern about being caught in an active shooting incident arising from terrorist jihadis.

    Nothing like swimming in a school of white peoples to make one feel safe.

    DNF (ffe548)

  60. Fwiw, the Nazis were, indeed, generally very fond of classical music. Ernst Hanfsnaegle managed to become one of Hitler’s closest confidants, despite opposing his antisemitism and militarism. Hanfsnaegle’s memoir, which has been published in English under several titles, is among the very best candid portraits of the top Nazi leadership available. I commend it to any student of populist politics.

    Barry Jacobs (2b1ba8)

  61. E.H. was Hitler’s personal pianist.

    Barry Jacobs (2b1ba8)


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